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The End of Memory: A Natural History of Aging and Alzheimer's
Jay Ingram · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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It is a wicked disease that robs its victims of their memories, their ability to think clearly, and ultimately their lives. For centuries, those afflicted by Alzheimer's disease have suffered its debilitating effects while family members sit by, watching their loved ones disappear a little... |
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Black Night, White Snow: Russia's Revolutions 1905-1917
Harrison Evans Salisbury · Doubleday; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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The destruction of the Czars which brought about the reign of revolutions from 1905–1917 in Russia looms as the crucial political event of the twentieth century. In little more than a decade the Romanov dynasty was toppled, and its time-honored institutions repudiated. How did it happen?... |
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Eat the Apple
Matt Young · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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"The Iliad of the Iraq war" (Tim Weiner) --a gut-wrenching, beautiful memoir of the consequences of war on the psyche of a young man. Eat the Apple is a daring, twisted, and darkly hilarious story of American youth and masculinity in an age of continuous war. Matt Young joined... |
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The Library Book
SUSAN ORLEAN · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Susan Orlean, hailed as a "national treasure" by The Washington Post and the acclaimed bestselling author of Rin Tin Tin and The Orchid Thief, reopens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, and delivers a dazzling love letter to a beloved... |
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The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic
John Demos · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 337
Format: Hardcover
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Longlisted for the 2014 National Book AwardThe astonishing story of a unique missionary project - and the America it embodied - from award-winning historian John Demos. Near the start of the nineteenth century, as the newly established United States looked outward toward the wider world,... |
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We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
Adam Winkler · Liveright
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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We the Corporations chronicles the revelatory story of one of the most successful, yet least known, "civil rights movements" in American history. In this groundbreaking portrait of corporate seizure of political power, We the Corporations reveals how American businesses won equal... |
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Fighting over the Founders: How We Remember the American Revolution
Andrew Schocket · NYU Press
Format: Hardcover
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The American Revolution is all around us. It is pictured as big as billboards and as small as postage stamps, evoked in political campaigns and car advertising campaigns, relived in museums and revised in computer games. As the nations founding moment, the American Revolution serves as a source... |
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The Darkest Year: The American Home Front 1941-1942
William K. Klingaman · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The Darkest Year is acclaimed author William K. Klingaman's narrative history of the American home front from December 7, 1941 through the end of 1942, a psychological study of the nation under the pressure of total war.For Americans on the home front, the twelve months following the Japanese... |
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Pershing's Crusaders: The American Soldier in World War I
Richard Faulkner · University Press of Kansas
Pages: 784
Format: Hardcover
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The Great War caught a generation of American soldiers at a turning point in the nation's history. At the moment of the Republic's emergence as a key player on the world stage, these were the first Americans to endure mass machine warfare, and the first to come into close contact... |
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Defending the Motherland: The Soviet Women Who Fought Hitler's Aces
Luba Vinogradova · MacLehose Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Plucked from every background, and led by an N.K.V.D. Major, the new recruits who boarded a train in Moscow on 16th October 1941 to go to war had much in common with millions of others across the world. What made the 586th Fighter Regiment, the 587th Heavy-bomber Regiment and the 588th... |
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The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made
Patricia O'Toole · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 768
Format: Hardcover
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By the author of acclaimed biographies of Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Adams, a penetrating biography of one of the most high-minded, consequential, and controversial US presidents, Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) . The Moralist is a cautionary tale about the perils of moral vanity and American... |
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The Guns of '62: The Image of War: 1861-1865, Vol. 2
National Historical Society · Doubleday; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Hundreds of photographs document the major military events of the second year of the Civil War and provide portraits of the war's leaders |
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Bringing Down Gaddafi: On the Ground with the Libyan Rebels
Andrei Netto · Palgrave Macmillan Trade
Format: Hardcover
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In February 2011, Andrei Netto, a reporter for O Estado de São Paulo , one of Brazil's main newspapers, traveled without permission into a region of Libya controlled by the regime, aiming to cover the first armed revolution of the Arab Spring. One of the first foreigners to reveal... |
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